JetZero Greensboro Manufacturing Campus

JetZero broke ground in June 2026 on a factory that, when finished, would be roughly twice the size of Boeing’s Everett plant. The campus at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro is planned at 8 million square feet across more than 600 acres, a $4.7 billion commitment that North Carolina calls the largest economic development project in state history. The state projects 14,500 jobs over ten years.

Project Scope

Phase 1 is the North Carolina Composite Center, a 150,000-square-foot aerospace manufacturing and R&D laboratory being delivered build-to-suit. HITT Contracting is general contractor, working with FSB Architects & Engineers on design, Kimley-Horn on civil, Savills as project and real estate advisor, and Siemens as manufacturing technology partner. The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority is coordinating the site.

The full campus builds out in phases over roughly a decade and will handle manufacturing and final assembly for JetZero’s blended-wing-body aircraft. That airframe drives the building geometry: a blended wing has a much wider span-to-length ratio than a conventional tube-and-wing jet, so assembly bays, tooling positions and door openings all scale differently than they would at a legacy narrowbody line. Composite fabrication capacity is being stood up first, which is why the composite center leads the schedule rather than final assembly.

Why It Matters

Nobody has built a clean-sheet commercial aircraft final assembly plant in the United States in a very long time, and nobody has built one for a blended-wing airframe at all. The engineering question the construction team is actually solving is how to lay out a factory for a product whose production process has no direct precedent, on a schedule that assumes the aircraft certifies.

The location matters too. Greensboro has been assembling an aviation cluster at PTI for two decades, with Honda Aircraft and Boom Supersonic already on the field, and the JetZero campus is the piece that turns a collection of tenants into a supply base. Whether the airframe reaches production is a separate question from whether the plant gets built. The state incentives are structured around jobs delivered, not aircraft delivered.

Project Team & Details